| GUYANA FASHION WEEK NEW YORK LAUNCH |
| Thursday, 12 August 2010 | |
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It was an intimate setting. A private cocktail reception at the RFA presentation of GFW designers where four models including Jamain Victor 2009 Guyana Model Search winner posed mannequin styled on pedestals strategically placed in the gallery. Creations from: Marcia DeSantos, Michael De Abru, Nikisha Johns, Christopher Goodridge, Blacque, Sonia Noel, Carol Frazer, Michael Kellman and Petra Rodney were modeled in this unique display where models stood frozen, only moving to change their garments. The other models were: Athina James `Miss Antigua Barbuda World/Universe 2008', legendary Trinidad model Cleo Patten and Barbados’ Allison King who modeled in the first Guyana Fashion Weekend in Guyana. Guyana’s Designer Portfolio winner Nikisha Johns and runner-up Michael DeAbru were on hand, facilitated several media interviews and photo-ops, as well as Paul Burnett who also showed his line `Blacque’ and styled the presentation. Among Ms Noel’s guests were New York based Guyanese fashion designers Rani Doobay and Mario Ramo of Mario Ramo Couture, Kevin Mays stylist on the Tyra Banks Show, Trinidad designer Donna Dove who showed at GFW in 2007 and 2008, Jamaican designer Michael Jerome Francis and artist Christopher Trujillo, EDGE Dance Company Director Errol Grimes, Helen Shelton, Senior V.P. Ruder Finn - Seagram’s Liquors, (who provided the wine) New York based actresses, Guyanese: Ingrid Griffith and Jamaican: Thaiys Walsh, model Lene Hall, GFW US Laison Walter Greene, GFW photographer Donn Thompson, Charles and Claire Monah, Colin Clarke, Dawn Stewart cCEO of CPIC and journalist/radio personality Brenda Richards The event was carried on Urban Fashion Network and covered by runwaynews.com, Zagat Survey, Profiles98 Magazine, N.Y.Carib News and The Blay Fashion Report. |
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